With the sudden closure of face-to-face teaching with COVID-19 in early 2020 … there was mayhem as universities around the world suddenly and unexpectedly went fully online. Sangster et al (2020) documented this well for accounting subjects. Educators and students alike felt stressed, isolated, unsupported and mourned the loss of their sense of community. PlannedContinue reading “Individualised authentic assessments: Stress-tested in critical times”
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Exploring Innovations and Inclusion in Assessment Practices
The Assessment in Higher Education conference leads the development of assessment for learning in higher education and ran for two days last week in Manchester UK. With around 300 delegates from across the globe this is one of the biggest dedicated international conferences for assessment and feedback. I presented our project on designing quality onlineContinue reading “Exploring Innovations and Inclusion in Assessment Practices”
Bringing calm to the chaos: Using educational theory to reframe AI in higher education
The furore around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its significance for education and academic integrity can be overwhelming. Opinions abound on the merits and provocations of using (or not) these tools (see for example Bryant, 2023). UNESCO have recently produced this comprehensive report to getting started with ChatGPT and AI and outlines other major challenges includingContinue reading “Bringing calm to the chaos: Using educational theory to reframe AI in higher education”
Nurturing graduate employability with prosocial engagement
Graduate employability – the ability to find, create, and sustain meaningful work across the lifespan of a career and in multiple contexts (Bennett, 2020) – is a top priority for the University of Sydney. Our graduates have been ranked the most employable in Australia and fourth globally (QS, 2022). Although our industry engagement is worldContinue reading “Nurturing graduate employability with prosocial engagement”
Framework for evaluating online assessment in business education: Trade-offs in promoting innovation
In the context of the rapid transition to fully online teaching and learning driven by COVID-19 (Ali, 2020), the Australian Business Deans Council commissioned a research project into online assessment in higher education in Australia. The cross-institutional project team consisted of members from the University of Sydney Business School, UTS Business and Chartered Accountants ANZ.Continue reading “Framework for evaluating online assessment in business education: Trade-offs in promoting innovation”
Transforming Assessment Across Disciplines
Current assessment and progression policies and practices in higher education are primarily dominated by the dichotomy between formative and summative assessments. This blog is based on an ASCILITE 2020 conference paper (Cerimagic and Khanna, 2020), in which my co-author and I discuss using programmatic assessment in a transformative way. We critically reflect on how medicalContinue reading “Transforming Assessment Across Disciplines”
Building Authentic Assessment
Why is authentic assessment important and what perceptions do students have of it? The notion of authentic assessment was first introduced in the 1980’s in an effort to shift away from standardised testing. Remember the multiple choice tests where you would colour in a red circle (A, B, C, or D) with a 2B pencil?Continue reading “Building Authentic Assessment”